Last month, Jack Mord, an eBay seller in Seattle, put a photograph up for sale under the headline “Nicolas Cage Is a Vampire.” Mord claimed the image shows “a man who looks exactly like Nick Cage. Personally, I believe it’s him and that he is some sort of walking undead/vampire, etc., who quickens/reinvents himself once every 75 years or so. One hundred and fifty years from now, he might be a politician, the leader of a cult, or a talk-show host.” Though there were 78 offers—the asking price was $1 million—all were rejected, and as of Sept. 22, the photograph was removed from the site.

A week after the Nicolas Cage photo was removed from eBay, another seller offered a 19th-century ambrotype photograph of a man who looked eerily like John Travolta, proving that he was a “time traveler.” The woman, who identified herself as “Fawn” (and is friends with Jack Mord, the seller of the Cage “vampire” photo), insists the image is real—even if the asking price, $50,000, was a joke. “Most people were curious and just thought the photo was fake or that I was weird,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s a really cool photograph, but I never thought it would cause this sort of hoopla … funny.”

Matthew McConaughey’s credo—and the name of his foundation—is “Just Keep Livin.” The phrase comes from a line his character delivered in Dazed and Confused, but could it also explain why McConaughey appears in a Civil War–era photograph?

On "Boardwalk Empire," Michael Shannon’s character is wound way too tight. In the new film "Take Shelter," he’s haunted by apocalyptic visions. Or perhaps he’s just seen too much, having been alive 150 years.